The Way of Kings 

Okay I generally enjoy Sanderson's writing and people I respect really love this series but my eyes actually rolled directly out of my head at this paragraph

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The Way of Kings 

"She couldn't be BEAUTIFUL, after all she was FRECKLED with FAIR SKIN and VIBRANT RED HAIR"

like, I'm thankful we didn't do the inexplicable-jump-to-descriptions-of-her-breasts but still. Even if someone doesn't fit the beauty conventions in-universe, it rings kind of false when they're clearly written to be well-within the beauty conventions of the author's culture.

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